Our Turners Group meets each month on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 9:30am & 1:30pm and the 4th Wednesday of the month at 9:30am at the Guild’s Workshop. Our Turning Group meetings combine hands-on learning sessions with one on one instruction in the mornings followed by a group project and critique in the afternoons.
Experienced members work with new turners to develop skills and to build people’s confidence in using the equipment correctly.
Our workshop is well equipped with lathes. New members can use a good selection of turning chisels and scrapers which are owned by the club until they build their skills and begin to buy their own equipment.
The Turning Group build members skills by setting a monthly project and then having an experienced turner critique each members contribution at the following meeting. Their objective is to explore new ideas and to improve.
Website: http://taurangawoodcrafters.org/turners/
Other woodcrafting groups operate as well.
The Tauranga Woodcrafters have monthly meetings for our different interest groups at the workshop. Carvers meet on the 2nd & 4th Mondays of the month at 9:30am. Scrollsaw Group meets on 1st & 3rd Wednesdays at 9:30am. Open Workshop (covering all areas of woodworking interest) meet on 2nd & 4th Wednesday’s at 6:30pm and 2nd & 4th Saturdays at 9:30am. We have a full club monthly meeting on the 3rd Saturday at 1:30pm.
